A New Cultural Politics

Download or read book The Postmodern Turn written by Steven Seidman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1994-11-25 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Postmodern Turn gathers together in one volume some of the most important statements of the postmodern approach to human studies. In addressing postmodern social theory and emphasising the social role of knowledge, this book abandons the disciplinary boundaries separating the sciences and the humanities. The first collection of its kind, it provides the classic essays of authors such as Lyotard, Haraway, Foucault and Rorty. Contributors include well-known theorists in the fields of sociology, anthropology, women's and gay studies, philosophy, and history.